THE CALENDAR FOR 1901
xi
1st
d.
h.
m.
Full Moon
5
7
50
A.M.
Last Quarter
13
4
15
A.M.
New Moon
20
10
12
P.M.
First Quarter 27
5
29
P.M.
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
....6h. 42m.
5h. 26m.
1899 1900
15th............6h. 44m.
5h. 35m.
Maximum
.72.6
71.1
Minimum
...43.6
37.5
Mean
...59.0 55.6
MOON'S PHASES
BAROMETER, 1899.
Mean....
...30.18
1899
RAINFALL
1900
0.185 inches
0.770 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF
11 & 12
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Tues.
1
11
Wed.
2
12
Thur. 3
13
Frid.
4
14
Sat.
5
15
Sun.
6
Mon.
Tues.
378
16
17
18
Wed.
9
19
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner
Yeh captured, 1958.
EPIPHANT. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.
Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. "Nachow" sank off Cup Chi, near
Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1802
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of
Japan, 1869.
Thur. 10
20
Frid. 11
21
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872.
1891.
New Union Church, Hongkong, opened,
Sat.
12
22
Sun. 13
23
Mon. 14 Tues. 15 Wed. 16
Thur. 17
Frid. 18 Sat. 19
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24
25
26
27
28
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
29
Sun. 20
Mon. 21
2
Tues.
22
Wed.
23
Thur.
24
Frid. 25 Sat.
Sun. 27
Mon. 28
Tues. 29
Wed.
Thur.
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3
Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in the nineteenth year of his age, 1875.
1st after EpipUANY. Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating
the intention of opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.
Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Li Hung-chang, new Viceroy, reaches Canton, 1900, The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841, Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1803.
2ND AFTER EPIPHANT. Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer “Pekin” at
Shanghai, 1891.
44
"
Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer "Nepaul" and Chinese transport Wan-nien-ching ; latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
4
P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1868.
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer "Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870, Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900,
44
Oneida
"
6
26
7
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrific
fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.
8
3RD AFTER EPIPHANY.
9
10
Decree from Tung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the
Christian faith in China, 1733.
30
11
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846.
31
12
Outer forts of Wei-hai-wei captured by Japanese, 1895.